Missing gtk+ icons/font render problems?

On my test weekly system I noticed that gcc wasn’t updated first. The order of things sometimes matter! If you see messages like this error while loading shared libraries: libffi.so.6 during package updates, you are surely affected by this. So if you notice problems with icons go missing, weird colors on gtk apps:

Mine wasn’t quite trashed, GDM crashes and gives me the contact system admin message. I open a root shell and reinstalled gdm, ran equo upgrade –replay still nothing. I had to stop xdm and startx to get a xsession. yuck.